On 27 Dec 2001, Alexandre Julliard wrote: [...]
The C vs. Perl question has been debated already, please check the archive. The truth is that a lot of people are willing to setup a testing infrastructure, but nobody is willing to write the actual tests.
I don't know if it is that noone wants to write tests or if it is that: * the current infrastructure has never been officially announced * the Wine project never officially said 'go ahead' write tests with our new testing infrastructure * there is no documentation on either how to write tests, no guidelines on how to write good tests, or on how one is supposed to run the Wine regression test suite * there is no sample test in any of the dlls/xxx directories. There is just one sample perl script in programs/winetest/test.pl * and there is also an autoconf test missing for '-lperl': gcc -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic winetest.spec.o winetest.o wine.o -o winetest.so -L../../library -lwine `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts` -lm -lutil -ldl /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl
So I would say we still have work to do on the infrastructure, if nothing else in terms of documentation and 'advertising' it, if we are to expect people to start writing tests.
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